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I, chs ii and iv. choice but to channel its military and economic assistance through the French government. But that was not an ideal state of affairs from the American point of view, and after 1954 it was changed as rapidly as possible. A nationalist government in Vietnam, independent of France, had been the ultimate American objective as early as r 943, when Roosevelt first suggested that the French colonial regime should be dismantled once the Second World War was over. Only the complexity of the political situation in Europe after 1945, and perhaps also events in China, had obliged Truman to reconsider that idea and to give priority to ensuring the stability of France itself.

The organisation in the South which corresponded to the latter was the National Revolutionary Movement, established in October 1954· Other movements created by Diem were designed specifically to unite civil servants, women and youth. The Can-Lao also maintained its own network within the national army, not unlike the Communist 'political department' in the PA VN. This use of Catholicism as a political base for antiCommunism was to some extent modelled on developments in France itself, where Catholic mobilisation had contributed substantially to the defeat of Communist aspirations after 1945· But Catholicism was a much more important element in French national life than could ever be the case in Vietnam, where Christians accounted for only 5-10 per cent of the population and were always more or less alienated from the mainstream of traditional culture and religion.

The Vietnamese chief-of-staff, Nguyen Van Hinh, may at one stage have expected to be given a similar role, and on one occasion- as if to hint as much- showed Colonel Lansdale a 1955-6 cigarette case he had been given by the Egyptian General Naguib. 8 But the Vietnamese officer corps was still French-oriented and potentially loyal to Bao Dai; it could have moved to centre-stage only in the context ofFranco-American collaboration. As it was the Americans were anxious to secure full control of the army for Diem before entrusting it with any political role; and to that end Diem used the Can-Lao.